Emily Dickinson
By: by Cynthia Griffin Wolff.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Knopf; Distributed by Random House
Published: 1986
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 641
Subjects: Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886; Poets, American -- 19th century -- Biography
Description: A biography of the New England poet describing her childhood, schooling, family relationships, and presenting an interpretative study of her work.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 595-605.
Includes indexes.
Table of contents: title: Prologue : The Oven Bird; title: Part one : My Father's House.; title: Samuel and Edward : The Last Jerusalem; title: Mother and Father : The Fall into Language; title: School : Faith and the Argument from Design; title: The 1850s : Apprenticeship and Vocation; title: Part two : Interlude : Context and Subject; title: Part three : Pugilist and Poet.; title: The Voice.; title: The Poet's Problem with a "Woman's Place"; title: The Voice of the Child; title: The "Wife's" Voice; title: The Proleptic Voice; title: The Possibilities for Publication; title: The Wrestle for Dominion : God's "Supernatural" Redefined.; title: The Ravishment of Faith; title: "Nature" Reviewed; title: A New Calendar of Signs; title: The Masks of Divinity and the Coordinates of Heaven; title: Experiment; title: Love and the Love Poetry.; title: The Language of Love; title: Love in the Real World; title: At the Conclusion Was the Word; title: Part four : The Razor's Edge : Some Specimen Poems; title: Part five : Adieu.; title: The Cosmos as Mirror; title: Can You Make a World Anew with Words?; title: Requiem; title: Part six : One of the Ones that Midas Touched